Oleg Davygora18:51, 03/27/24
Before the full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine, Baikal Electronics ordered the production of chips, including their packaging, at the Taiwanese TSMC factory.
More than half of the batches of Baikal chips produced by the Russian company Baikal Electronics turn out to be defective, Vedomosti reports , citing companies producing radio-electronic products.
According to Vedomosti, Baikal Electronics is expanding its experiment in packaging its chips in Russia. Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the company ordered chip production, including packaging, from the Taiwanese TSMC factory. Baikal Electronics planned to increase production volume to 600,000 chips in 2025, but due to sanctions it stopped cooperation and did not ship 300,000 already produced Baikal processors to Russia in 2022.
As a result, Baikal Electronics began experiments to transfer the assembly of processors “to domestic facilities,” but “more than half of the output batches of chips turn out to be defective.”
According to sources, this is due, among other things, to the equipment of enterprises, which must be able to be configured, as well as to the insufficient competencies of people involved in packaging chips.
“In Russia they can package a small number of processors, but when it comes to a series, there are a lot of defects. Manufacturers cannot maintain the same good level on all products,” said one of the interlocutors.
Import of chips to the Russian Federation – details
In the first 9 months of 2023, Russia imported more than $1 billion worth of advanced microprocessors from leading American and European manufacturers. These are classified data from the Russian customs service obtained by Bloomberg.
According to the agency, more than half of the total volume of imported semiconductors and integrated circuits during the specified period came from Western companies. These include the American Intel Corp, Advanced Micro Devices and Analog Devices Inc., as well as the European Infineon Technologies AG, STMicroelectronics NV and NXP Semiconductors NV.
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Chip production is a very sensitive business, the wafer factories are very vulnerable to vibrations and dust. Even one single drone coming through and exploding near such a building may stop the process for months. 🤨
So, those washing machine chips dont work in Russian made weapons, no?
So, as a few Western hi-tech companies are earning money from mafia land by selling them chips, to produce weapons, Western taxpayers are paying for weapons that Ukraine uses to destroy them with. This world is a giant clown show.